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Sarah Dai
Senior Reporter, Technology
Sarah Dai is a senior technology reporter with the Post. Based in Beijing, she has been following China’s AI champions since 2017, with industry focuses on security, autonomous driving, healthcare and data analytics. Previously, she worked as financial correspondent for Caixin Media in Hong Kong for more than two years and wrote for China Daily in Beijing and London.
With Washington shutting the door on foreign chip suppliers who use US technology to produce semiconductors for Huawei, can domestic Chinese firms meet its needs?
The power tussle has emerged at a delicate time for Arm amid rising tech tensions between the US and China and Washington’s campaign against Huawei.
While 5G is not essential for achieving fully autonomous driving, in China it is seen as playing an important role in handling noncore computing tasks and enhancing safety
Didi’s foray into logistics is set to further intensify competition in an already crowded market dominated by established industry leaders like Manbang, Huolala and Kuaigou
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Last month Qihoo was put on a US trade blacklist along with 32 Chinese companies and government organisations, upping the stakes in an escalating US-China tech stand-off.
While some domestic EV makers are struggling, Xpeng managed to raise US$400 million in new financing last year, according to the company.
Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp led the funding round, which marks the single largest investment in China’s autonomous driving sector.
Liu Qingfeng, chairman of Chinese AI champion iFlyTek, says AI technology can play a vital role in lifting China out of poverty by leveling the uneven distribution of resources
iFlyTek’s sales approach goes against the grain of the current move by many merchants to take their business and sales online amid Covid-19
China should include computer programming in its basic education curriculum to support its ambitions of becoming a tech powerhouse in areas such as artificial intelligence, NetEase founder and chief executive Ding Lei proposes.
To reduce the risks of data leakage and abuse, Baidu chief executive Robin Li proposes that Chinese government bodies work together on a coordinated approach to manage personal data collected during the pandemic.
Tesla challenger Xpeng has opened a highly automated plant in southern Guangdong province that will assemble its new P7 electric sports car, the first Level 3 autonomous driving-ready production vehicle to be released in China.
By end-September, all marriage registries in Xian will have automated terminals where couples can obtain their marriage certificates by scanning their faces, as part of the country’s overall push to digitalise services.
Baidu says it will promote live-streaming services more actively – competing with established players like Douyin and Kuaishou – and hopes to cultivate 1,000 live-streaming stars.
Final-year students returning to class wear the smart wristband during school hours for real-time fever detection as part of effort to minimise further outbreaks of coronavirus
Online sales on e-commerce platforms surged, with live-streamed sales events doing especially well, despite dampened consumer sentiment due to the coronavirus pandemic, China’s Ministry of Commerce said.
Didi’s ride volume in China has reached 60 to 70 per cent of pre-coronavirus levels and is five times its February low, president Jean Liu Qing says.
China’s largest ride-hailing operator has restored its taxi-hailing, on-demand private car, Hitch carpooling and designated driving services in Wuhan amid government efforts to revive the country’s economy after the outbreak.
The urgent challenge for Huawei is how it continues to navigate the US decision to add it to a trade blacklist last year – which has meant re-engineering its supply chains.
The deal calls for NIO, hailed as one of China’s main Tesla challengers, to transfer its core businesses and assets into a new company that will be headquartered in Hefei, capital of eastern Anhui province.
Chinese EV maker Xpeng’s second production model, after the G3 launched in 2018, is expected to intensify the company’s rivalry with Tesla in the world’s largest car market.
The Digital Currency Research Institute, a unit of the People’s Bank of China that is overseeing development of a new sovereign digital currency, is collaborating with SenseTime to deploy the latest advances in artificial intelligence technology in the country’s financial industry.
The rural carrier market was one of Huawei’s few successes in the US but a new law, driven by Washington’s national security concerns, means telcos will have to rip out Huawei gear or lose government subsidies.
Autonomous driving start-up AutoX is now offering its fleet of robotaxis as part of ride-hailing options on Autonavi’s Amap app, which aggregates mobility services provided by more than 40 companies in China.
Byton initiated a series of cost-reduction measures this week amid efforts to put on track its main operations in Nanjing, capital of eastern coastal Jiangsu province, where production of its M-Byte electric sport utility vehicle is based.
SAIC Volkswagen’s Passat cars and other models produced this year will come with JD.com’s smart home services built in, allowing users to control their home appliances while driving.
The move comes amid wider efforts by Beijing to roll out digital infrastructure backed by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Baidu is competing with other players like Google’s Waymo, ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and self-driving start-ups AutoX and Pony.ai to make a driverless future a reality.
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, which gained a 30 per cent market share in Latin America over the past two years, is now expanding with new services like food deliveries
Self-driving car start-up Pony.ai has launched an autonomous delivery service in California in partnership with e-commerce platform Yamibuy amid the coronavirus lockdown
